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Brain Things
Challenge: Share some of your brainstorming notes. Describe your brain. Prompt: The human mind is a fascinating meat-blob of atoms and electricity. I continue to be awestruck by the mind-boggling <-----(punny)-- differences between my brain and everyone else's. Tell me how your brain works. Describe your thoughts, thought-process, inner monologue, the little voice inside your head, conscience, misfiring synapses, ect.. What do you "see" in your mind? Do you visualize your thoughts like movies, sounds, words, numbers? How does one thought lead to the next, and how did you even imagine your first thought? Share some of the notes you've taken for your creative projects. Give us a glimpse of your brainstorming moments. Format: This challenge is very patched together, so anything goes. Interpret and post at will. Tag me :) My Brain Explosion Example Post: https://theprose.com/post/741466/lost-sea

I Don’t Mind

When I come up with new ideas they occur in one of three ways typically.

One way that I am using less often is that I will come up with a title and work out from there, slowly adding Why the plot exists then the characters. The second way is I might get an idea for a character then I have to find a place to put them, often I will try to put them in an existing work but they will grow a personality to large to be a secondary character so I must make a world for them. Last and most common recently I will come up with a single concept and create characters and a plot.

The notes below are for an idea that I came up with while watching Forged in Fire with my sister. She is a ferrier (someone who trims horse hooves and makes shoes for them) and she mentioned that you could intentionally forge a sword with weaknesses so that it would break after a few strong hits. From this comment the idea of a smith intentionally sabotaging his rulers sword arose.

First I had to know why the smith was angry, then who the ruler was fighting, and lastly the setting of the story, which turned into the idea for a series. The names for the books were created during writing down my notes, which I have to do after a lot of my brainstorming, because in order for my mind to work to write a story I have to be walking. Usually the first parts I flush out in my mind are the dialogue of the characters in the story.

End of the Age of Tyrant's

Outsider hero

Book 1: A Sword Forged in Hatred

Smith looses his wife.  sword breaks

Book 2: Poison to Taste

Cooks sister flogged to death. Allergy poison.

Book 3: Song of Trifles Canary

Best friend murdered by the queen. Hanging